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 Man Still Champ; Better at Bluffing A team of artificial intelligence researcher from the University of Alberta pitted their Poker playing software program, Polaris, against two human players in a contest, which was billed as the “First Man-Machine Poker Championship” and which offered prize money totaling $50,000. For now man wins, machine has to hack passwords to porn sites in lost side bet to men.
 For anyone stuck on a casino stool, playing hours of video poker, rest assured: humans can still beat a computer. But computers may soon dominate on the felt-top table, as they have on the chessboard. In a match of wits between man and machine this week, a software program running on an ordinary laptop computer fought a close match, but lost to two well-known professional human poker players. Poker is thought to be a more difficult challenge for software designers than games like chess and checkers. Computer scientists have to develop different strategies and algorithms to deal with the uncertainties introduced by the hidden cards held by each player as well as difficult-to-quantify risk-taking behaviors such as bluffing.
(gizmodo)References: nytimes, gizmodo Comment: on AI Poker Matches |
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